Girl · English
Essence
Say it: ES-ens
Meaning
The English word for the inner nature of something, from Latin essentia.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Taken up as a name after Essence magazine was founded in 1970.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1990s
In the United States
- 9,655 babies given this name since 1973
- At its height in 1998, about 1 in 3,100 girls
- 183 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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